Director elected to leading role with JCI

A YORKSHIRE businesswoman has become one of the national leaders of Junior Chamber International (JCI), it was revealed yesterday.

Emma Eastwood, from Leeds, has been elected as National Deputy President of JCI, one of the world’s largest networking groups for young professionals. Ms Eastwood, who works as an associate director at city living specialists Morgans, was previously JCI’s president for Leeds and is currently the organisation’s UK personnel development director.

JCI – a volunteer network for people in their twenties and thirties – was founded in 1915 in St Louis, Missouri. It spread to the UK in 1925.

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Yorkshire’s leading role in the revival of the JCI movement was recognised in February when the global head of JCI visited the county. JCI World President Bertolt Daems held talks with JCI members in Sheffield during a three-day tour of Britain.

Ms Eastwood said yesterday: “The organisation provides a fantastic networking platform and offers plenty of opportunities to develop new skills, work with charities and participate in other worthwhile projects.

“I’m delighted to have been appointed to the national board. Because JCI is global it also offers opportunities to travel and this summer I’m attending a conference in Germany followed by a leadership academy in Japan. In November, I’m going to JCI’s world congress in Taiwan.”

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